History Quotes / DependingOnTheWriter

->''"Anytime you want to know [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny who would win a fight]] between the {{Hulk}} and ComicBook/{{Galactus}} or {{Spider-Man}} and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]] or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. Because the writer is like GOD."''

-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' on ''FugitiveAlien''

-->-- ''{{Kanamemo}}''

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voyager-season-three.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Swarm"

!!!Fiction

->'''Bat-Mite:''' Batman's rich history allows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure, this is a lighter incarnation, but it's certainly no less valid and true to the character's roots as the tortured avenger crying out for Mommy and Daddy. (Makes the paper disappear.) And besides, those [[KillerRabbit Easter Bunnies]] looked really scary, right?!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''

->'''Squidward:''' Patrick, just how stupid are you?
->'''Patrick:''' It varies.
-->--''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

->'''Kana:''' Don't worry, I won't tell this to anybody. I will carefully lock it into my heart... ([[SlasherSmile smiles creepilly]]) and take it out sometimes [[OutOfCharacter to look at it]]. ''[[SurpriseCreepy Yes...]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny intently...]]''
->'''Mika:''' ''[[LampshadeHanging What the hell?]]''
-->-- ''{{Kanamemo}}''

!!!On works
-> ''"Early on, I learned that writing in a shared world works a whole lot better if you don't define 'sharing' as 'everything in the lore is up for grabs, no matter who created it'."''
-->-- '''Elaine Cunningham''' on [[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Realmslore]]

->''I know that three writers take turns writing episodes of Series/{{Glee}}, and someday I would like for them to meet each other.''
-->-- '''[[https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveHolmes/status/45679640488050688 Dave Homes, Twitter]]'''

->''"Anytime you want to know [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny who would win a fight]] between the {{Hulk}} and ComicBook/{{Galactus}} or {{Spider-Man}} and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]] or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. Because the writer is like GOD."''
-->-- StanLee, http://youtu.be/HGI1_rAoYPM

->''"I don’t understand this woman? Just like year she was preaching the Prime Directive as [[BotheringByTheBook a creed that they have to cling onto with dear life]] if they are to escape the Delta Quadrant and now she is [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight happily dismissing it]] because (and I quote): ‘I’m not about to waste fifteen months because we’ve run into a bunch of bullies!’ If I were a Maquis crewmember I would call her screaming hypocrite although I’m willing to bet we’ll be hearing about the all-powerful Prime Directive in a few episodes time. This isn’t so much bad characterisation as it is lazy – I get a real feeling on this show that they don’t keep track of what characters have said and done in the past and merely change their opinions to suit an episode. These people aren’t characters, they're turning into plot devices. For some bizarre reason Janeway has a habit of talking like the Terminator this season – like some Hitleresque bully who thinks she can punch her way through whatever obstacles come in her way. She was like it in The Chute and she’s behaving exactly the same in this episode...just five episodes ago she was [[EekAMouse cowering under a table from a storm!]] Can’t we find a happy medium between that wimp and this fascist?"''

->''"Anytime you want to know [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny who would win a fight]] between the {{Hulk}} and {{Galactus}} or {{Spider-Man}} and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Human Torch]] or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. Because the writer is like GOD."''

->''"Anytime you want to know [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny who would win a fight]] between the {{Hulk}} and {{Galactus}} or {{Spider-Man}} and [[FantasticFour the Human Torch]] or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. Because the writer is like GOD."''

->'''Animal Man:''' But what happens to me?
->'''Creator/GrantMorrison:''' Like I said. Someone else writes your life. They might play it safe and write you as a straight action superhero who fights animal-inspired supervillains every issue. They might do the obvious and go for shock by turning you into a meat-eater. I don't know.
->'''Animal Man:''' How can they make me eat meat? I ''don't'' eat meat! I don't ''want'' to eat meat! I'm a vegetarian.
->'''Grant Morrison:''' No, ''I'm'' a vegetarian. ''You'll'' be whatever you're written to be.

->'''Crow:''' Why do they need so many writers?\\
'''Tom Servo:''' Oh, they needed one guy for the verbs, one guy for the nouns, somebody for the adjectives, y'know, adverbs, gerunds.
-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' on ''FugitiveAlien''

->''Anytime you want to know who would win a fight between the {{Hulk}} and {{Galactus}} or {{Spider-Man}} and [[FantasticFour the Human Torch]] or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. [[WordOfGod Because the writer is like GOD]].''

->''"Why use [[BlueBeetle Beetle]], [[BoosterGold Booster]] and Maxwell Lord in a story like this? ... in a larger sense, it seems like DC is going out of its way to try to explain away all the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks lighter moments]] in its history, first with [[IdentityCrisis IDENTITY CRISIS]][='s=] [[HandWave mindwipe explanation]] for the goofy villains of the Silver Age, and now with this supposed revelation that the goofier moments of [[JusticeLeagueInternational JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL]] were [[TheManBehindTheMan all just a feint by Maxwell Lord]] to keep them distracted from his real, more sinister agenda. It's as if current {{DC}} editorial can't stand the thought that there was ever a lighthearted story in their history, and rather than leaving them alone as a valuable counterpoint to [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkening of the DC universe]], they're determined to force them into this new paradigm, whether they fit or not, and no matter what damage is done to the old stories in the process. It'd be one thing to just say that Max went rogue, but to assert that [[TheMole he was always engaged in this sort of activity]], in direct contradiction to his expressed thoughts when first published? Doesn't work for me, and makes me buy into the whole premise all the less."''
-->--'''''[[http://asitecalledfred.com/comics101/109a.html Comics 101]]''''' on ''CountdownToFinalCrisis''

->''"Why use [[BlueBeetle Beetle]], [[BosterGold Booster]] and Maxwell Lord in a story like this? ... in a larger sense, it seems like DC is going out of its way to try to explain away all the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks lighter moments]] in its history, first with [[IdentityCrisis IDENTITY CRISIS]][='s=] [[HandWave mindwipe explanation]] for the goofy villains of the Silver Age, and now with this supposed revelation that the goofier moments of [[JusticeLeagueInternational JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL]] were [[TheManBehindTheMan all just a feint by Maxwell Lord]] to keep them distracted from his real, more sinister agenda. It's as if current {{DC}} editorial can't stand the thought that there was ever a lighthearted story in their history, and rather than leaving them alone as a valuable counterpoint to [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkening of the DC universe]], they're determined to force them into this new paradigm, whether they fit or not, and no matter what damage is done to the old stories in the process. It'd be one thing to just say that Max went rogue, but to assert that [[TheMole he was always engaged in this sort of activity]], in direct contradiction to his expressed thoughts when first published? Doesn't work for me, and makes me buy into the whole premise all the less."''

-->--'''''[[ Comics 101]]''''' on ''CountdownToFinalCrisis''

->''"Why use [[BlueBeetle]], [[BosterGold Booster]] and [Maxwell Lord in a story like this? ... in a larger sense, it seems like DC is going out of its way to try to explain away all the [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks lighter moments]] in its history, first with [[IdentityCrisis IDENTITY CRISIS]][='s=] [[HandWave mindwipe explanation]] for the goofy villains of the Silver Age, and now with this supposed revelation that the goofier moments of [[JusticeLeagueInternational JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL]] were [[TheManBehindTheMan all just a feint by Maxwell Lord]] to keep them distracted from his real, more sinister agenda. It's as if current {{DC}} editorial can't stand the thought that there was ever a lighthearted story in their history, and rather than leaving them alone as a valuable counterpoint to [[DarkerAndEdgier the darkening of the DC universe]], they're determined to force them into this new paradigm, whether they fit or not, and no matter what damage is done to the old stories in the process. It'd be one thing to just say that Max went rogue, but to assert that [[TheMole he was always engaged in this sort of activity]], in direct contradiction to his expressed thoughts when first published? Doesn't work for me, and makes me buy into the whole premise all the less."''

->'''Squidward:''' Patrick, just how stupid are you?
->'''Patrick:''' It varies.
-->--''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

->''Anytime you want to know who would win a fight between the {{Hulk}} and {{Galactus}} or {{Spiderman}} and TheHumanTorch or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. [[WordOfGod Because the writer is like GOD]].''

->''Anytime you want to know who would win a fight between the {{Hulk}} and {{Galactus}} or {{Spiderman}} and the HumanTorch or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. [[WordOfGod Because the writer is like GOD]].''

->''Anytime you want to know who would win a fight between the Hulk and Galactus or Spiderman and the Human Torch or anything: the correct answer is, it depends on who's writing the story and who he wants to win. [[WordOfGod Because the writer is like GOD]].''

-->-- ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'', "Deus Ex Machina", Grant Morrison's last issue as writer

->''I know that three writers take turns writing episodes of {{Glee}}, and someday I would like for them to meet each other.''

->'''Kana:''' Don't worry, I won't tell this to anybody. I will carefully lock it into my heart... ([[SlasherSmile smiles creepilly]]) [[NightmareFuel and take it out sometimes]] [[OutOfCharacter to look at it]]. ''[[SurpriseCreepy Yes...]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny intently...]]''

->'''AnimalMan:''' But what happens to me?
->'''GrantMorrison:''' Like I said. Someone else writes your life. They might play it safe and write you as a straight action superhero who fights animal-inspired supervillains every issue. They might do the obvious and go for shock by turning you into a meat-eater. I don't know.

-->-- ''AnimalMan'', "Deus Ex Machina", Grant Morrison's last issue as writer

->'''Bat-Mite:''' Batman's rich history allows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure, this is a lighter incarnation, but it's certainly no less valid and true to the character's roots as the tortured avenger crying out for Mommy and Daddy. (Makes the paper disappear.) And besides, those Easter Bunnies looked really scary, right?!

-->-- ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' on ''FugitiveAlien''

-->-- '''Elaine Cunningham''' on [[ForgottenRealms Realmslore]]

-> Early on, I learned that writing in a shared world works a whole lot better if you don't define "sharing" as "everything in the lore is up for grabs, no matter who created it".
-->-- Elaine Cunningham on [[ForgottenRealms Realmslore]]

-->-- ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''

->-- '''AnimalMan''', Deus Ex Machina ''(Grant Morrison's last issue on the series)''

'''Tom Servo:''' Oh, they needed one guy for the verbs, one guy for the nouns, somebody for the adjectives, y'know, adverbs, gerunds...\\
-- ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]: FugitiveAlien''

->'''GrantMorrison:''' Like I said. Someone else writes your life. They might play it safe and write you as a straight action superhero who fights animal-inspired supervillains every issue. They might do the obvious and go for shock by [[CharacterDerailment turning you into a meat-eater]]. I don't know.

->-- '''AnimalMan''', Deus Ex Machina ''(Grant Morrison's last issue on the series)''